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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 51, 18 April 1884, Page 19

T ?? h ~ ge crowd that flocked on Sunday evening, Feb. 10, to the Jesuit Church at Garnet-hill, Glasgow, and filled it to overflowing, listened with breathless attention to a most interesting discourse by Father Stevenson on the Catholicism of mediaeval Scotland After tracing the earliest history of Christianity, the reverend lecturer went on to pourtray the rise of the monastic system, and ushered in the romantic figure of St Cohimba and the hallowed memories of lona, so dear to Irish and to Scottish hearts. Then he drew a rapid but graphic picture of the interaction of Kelt and Saxon, and the fascinating story of Oswald, Aidan, Cuthbert Bede, Margaret and David was told anew. Incidentally the account found in the library at York, which claims St. Cuthbert as another of the glories of the Green Isle of Saints, was accepted by the lecturer, -who found no difficulty in reconciling this statement with the account of the Venerable Bede. Indeed, over the narrative of thia saintly scholar— a spirit all congenial to his own— the learned lecturer hung with an unction peculiarly sympathetic. It was not known to the audience, and the modesty of the aged religious precluded him from stating it, that even in his Protestant days he had laboured in preparuigfor the English Press a new edition of the works of the great Saxon historian. B